Opinion: The Left’s Louisville-Gate

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... to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... prison Obama released his budget this morning you were to go after those numbers in a moment but first ... we're turning to Louisville case ... alot thingy Yellen secretly released ... tapes of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell his staff planning opposition research ... on Ashley Judd ... care center or call's response ... the new ones ... someone's mental health or the religious sensibilities ... in a strategy session like that yes I indicated of ... last month they were checking out wif ethnicity ... and apparently also unbeknown to us that the time there were bugging our headquarters quite ... mix Sony and a ... move ... this is what you get ... from the political left in America and Asia ... Nick Sony and tactics well luckily ... we have someone on said here who use or for present Mexican ... political commentator and author Monica Crowley ... on ... my head and does is take actually shale region amid ... opposition research a mean there's a lot to say that when you look at Ashley Judd Sarah of course the first well let me clarify something married than ever to President Nixon during the last four years that the life of the year in Korea old when he became president ... on ... if this is politics let's not be naive about any of this people on both sides when they're anticipating a tough race of course the duo opposition research ... on whatever candidate they think they may be facing this is no exception what is different here is that this was ... a taped conversation over private strategy meeting ... to release find out exactly how facts heaping happens because ... if this were in the illegal wiretap in the state of Kentucky been there could be some really cool calm cannot legal consequences here in the liability could be quite extreme ... however it was somebody in the room where the cellphone who was recording this for some kind of testing the device recording is ... that it can be a different ball game on TV two examples recently married that we saw something like this happening ... four years ago the two thousand and eight presidential campaign Barack Obama ... was surreptitiously taped ... at a fundraiser in San Francisco ... the other way and then head out and hit the road yet where he said I have people who claim to their guns into the religion and of course that little uppity and to explain it to him realize he was being taped with those remarks ... this course last year in the presidential election cycle met Romney being taped with the now infamous comment about the forty seven percent which was also leaked to a left wing ... organization that then distributed to the world really hurts Romney's campaign ... so I think you're you're talking to different situations here ... all that but this is the world we live and bring it to the ever talk to President Nixon a ballot ... why again in these kinds of tactics mean when when she heard is that of course it didn't affect my second post ... about my experiences with him called Nixon in winter as a whole chapter ... about his final reflections on Watergate that he believes me ... it said it is ... in so many ways pure stupidity it is its political stole the Korean a lot of people just can't accept that that's the way this ... buy ... you if ... you have a tendency to be caught now if you're a Republican being caught doing this kind of thing ... that is a career render the media will drive you into the ground if you're a Democrat or liberal doing this kind of thing ... it tends to be excused and an papered over ... say that understand their character from consequences for different people and in the center of the fund quote from presidents and or to put up on the screen here and I quote ... I can say this on the air ... why the hell did I go through this dam fire nobody's ever and all learn from and the Fed actually say that's mean about said it was in the early nineteen nineties when I was working for him when whitewater was emerging that seek huge scandal ninety two ninety three ... and President Nixon said no he said while ... the campfire if nobody is ever to learn from this he said ... I made a series of very serious mistakes I've spent the rest of my life trying to make it out to myself my family and my country ... by the path to the lessons learned here and generation after generation politician ... and on all kinds of political opportunists ... never seem to learn the lesson that what what is going to get you anywhere but what they said was fairly chicken and it was this if they were committing a crime and they were taping summing it was terrible that's right um ... it just a week of the scapegoats of this left wing ... media Allie ... does it signal that Democrats really think that the cop could be a legitimate target the keys vulnerable in the twenty fourteen election ... yet heard there were a zinger yet been but not to bring down the Senate minority leader U K now be such a fat rich target for them but in a state of Kentucky ... Facebook owns brought home the bacon cheese still very popular he may in fact days ... of the primary challenges for talks had hit last week Mary he may face that ... would bring poll to see other Senator from Kentucky endorsing this McConnell it this early date ... that tells me that he's trying to tamp down any kind of tea party challenge the McConnell ... I think you smell that if we say okay so we'll rebuild it so I guess that served as the vicinity to ... the US and the euro consequences if this was an illegal wiretap ok we're going have to keep an eye on the story political commentator Monica Crowley thank you so much going to put a stain on the show ...